Am Sunday 12 February 2006 14:10 schrieb Thomas Hertweck:
> jdd wrote:
> > [...]
> > may I say that usually console only install are servers ones.
>
> Automatic mounting has nothing to do with servers or the type of machine
> I am working on. My laptop is not a server, however I don't need any
> automount feature. Who says that I want to have immediate access to the
> content of a CD-ROM or USB stick after insertion/plugin?

Who says you(means the user) won't ?

> Who says I want 
> everybody currently logged in on my desktop machine to have access to my
> CD-ROM after insertion of the CD?

classic /etc/fstab user entries do have the same problem. Actually, this 
problem was solved thanks to subfs and resmgr. Only the user logged in on :0 
got access.

> Remember, Linux is a multi-user 
> system. Sometimes I just plug my USB stick in to avoid loosing the stick
> (they are almost too small nowadays ;-)) - then it's mounted, a window
> pops up, etc. Really annoying! If somebody wants to have all those
> "features", that's fine for me. But I must be able to turn it off easily!

Click on "No" the first time and it did never come back.

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH,  Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
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